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Nadine O’Regan: For young people struggling here, emigration is again becoming a very real prospect
A shocking housing crisis at home is causing a generation of Irish young people to be less risk-averse when it comes to seeking their futures elsewhere
"Guess what? I'm not coming home! I've been offered a job!"
It was an early morning in the late 1990s. My parents, who I was calling on the phone from San Francisco, would have been just about awake. At midnight my time in San Fran, 8am their time in Cork, I could probably have timed my emigration announcement better, but the excitement was too much for me.
I had been on a student visa to ...